St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-03-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

The sheriff of Howard County, Ia, took
Judson Talmadge, the embezzling agent
Of the American Express Company at
Ceresco, Ia. from Lockport, N. Y, on the
14th Talmadge was short $500 in his
accounts He was two months in Canada
and gave himself up at Suspension Bridge
| fe w days ago.
| TENNESSEE is to vote on prohibition in
September.
! THE Missouri Senate has agreed to ad-
! journ on the 2lst inst.
| A oUARTER-MILLIoN dollar fire occurred
| on the 18th at Buffalo, N. Y.
THE trial of thirty-one South Carolina
| lynchers was begun at Charleston on the
| 18th.
| Mr. AND MRS. HUGH DENNIsoN were
| burned to death in hotel fire at Brace
bridge, Ont, on the 18TH
| ISAAC Fl. VINCENT, defaulting State
Treasurer of Alabama, has been caught in
Texas and taken home for trial
| HALF the town Of Oxford, N. g., was de-
stroyed by fire, on the 18th, alleged to have
| been of incendary origin.
| NJ. De LEssEPs has returned to Paris,
and is positive peace is to continue be-
tween France and Germany.
| THE National Association of General
| Passenger and Ticket Agents held its an
nual meeting at Washington on the 18th.
| THE cataract over the eye of Sir Michael
| Hicks Beach is becoming larger and lessen
| ing the vision of the optic.
THE annual meeting Of the Department
of Superinte ents' National Educational
Association was begun at Washington on
| the 18th.
| GENERAL E. s. BRAGG is confined TO his
| home in Fond du Lac, Wis, by blindness.
His eyesight failed him while he was out
driving. Partial paralysis has completely
blinded one eye. The General thinks the
| oss of sight is not permanent.
| ORDERS have been issued to the police
| to shoot down Irish tenants who may at
tempt to prevent the ar est of Father
Keller.
HEAVY snow-storms prevailed on the
| 18th throughout Bavaria and Wurtem-
| burg. A slight shock Of earthquake was
| felt in Munich and vicinity during the day,
| but it did no damage.
| ACTING SECRETARY FAIRCHILD, with the
Presidents approval, has designated San
Francisco as a port from which imported
merchandise may be shipped in bond in
transit through the United States to and
| from the British possessions in North
| America.
members of the G. A. r. to recognize the
patriotic services of the late Henry Ward
| Beecher in the cause of the Union by
| organizing q post to bear his name.
| The Pope is reported to have changed
some of his plans in regard to cardinals in
Difference to Germany's wishes
THE President has granted a pardon TO
j. J. c. Daugherty, who was convicted of
embezzling money order funds amounting
to Sc, 1856 and sentenced October 6, 1884, to
three years impris onment in the Balti-
more city Jail and to pay fine equal to
the amount embezzled
HORACE PECK, aged eighty-fve years,
was buried at Clarendon, Orleans County,
N. Y, on the 14th. He was secretary of
the Masonic lodge at Batavia, N. Y, when
the famous William Morgan seeded and
disappeared. Peck was always a staunch
defender of the attitude taken by the
order during those exciting times.
The hog packing in Milwaukee for the
winter season 1867, just closed, aggrega-
ted 329.2 55 head; average weight. ISL
pounds net; average yield Of lard per
hog, 27.19 pounds-a decrease of
1851 hogs and go pounds
per hog in average weight as
compared with the winter of 1856. Sum-
mer packing Of 1857 March to Novem-
Der y, 225, S23 head; average weight, 170.s5
pounds net; average lard yield, 25 pounds.
Total packing for the year, 553, or hogs.
DANIEL MANNING, ex-Secretary of the
Treasury, sailed for Europe on the 18th,
instead of waiting till the 10Th as he had
intended.
THE Virginia Legislature assembled in
extra session on the 10th.
G. 81. J. TAYLOR (colored), of Kansas, has
been appointed Mi mister to Liberia
JAMES G.. BLAINE was a visitor on the
floor of the State Senate of Maine on the
10Th.
SHARES Of the broken Maritime Bank Of
New Brunswick are being bought up by
specializing capitalists.
FIVE counterfeiters-two of them wom-
en-were captured at North Lewisburg,
o., on the 10th.
CANADIAN officials have sent sugges-
ton to London to have the fish dispute
with the United States settled by arbitra-
ton.
NINE. SCALcHI is very sick in Chicago.
1t Is denied that ill-feeling exists between
her and Nine. Patti.
FIVE county officials were arraigned in
court at Chicago on the 10Th, charged
with ''boodling."
TIE Upper Missou and other North
western rivens were reported on big
rise on the 10th, and much overflow dam
age was also reported.
IT is reported that the colonial gov
eminent of Nova Scotia is about to sub
nit to popular vote the question of
secession from Canada.
THE Engineer Neps has investigated the
Dedham disaster, near Boston, and pro-
nounces the bridge to have been veri-
table death trap.
A. K. CUTTING has turned up in New
Orleans looking for work. He has post
poned revolutionizing Northern Mexico
indefinitely.
The German press takes a gloomy view
of the situation of affairs in Russia, draw
ing conclusions from the late attempt on
the Czar's life